Postgraduate Research

Thi Thu Ha Bui, PhD Candidate
Supervisors: Tomoko Nakamatsu and Steven Schilizzi (Agricultural Economics)
Working thesis title: Economic growth and women's socioeconomic position: the case of female factory workers and farmers in the farmed shrimp industry in Vietnam

David Chew, PhD Candidate
Supervisors: Stephen Dobbs and David Bourchier
Working thesis title: Political Contestation in a Muslim Hegemonic State - Strategizing from Diverse Opposition Ideologies against the Establishment's Entrenched Communitarian Politics Amid Creeping Islamism in Multi-Ethnic Malaysia

Aaron Hales, PhD Candidate
Supervisors: Stephen Dobbs, Stephen Chinna (English & Cultural Studies) and Jane Davidson (Music)
Working thesis title: English; Music; Social & Cultural Studies

Russell Harwood, PhD Candidate
Supervisors: Gary Sigley and Lyn Parker
Working thesis title: Development at the periphery: an examination of governance, community agency and marginalisation within rural communities in the Nujiang valley, southwest China

Suzie Handajani, PhD Candidate
Supervisors: Lyn Parker and Alison Bartlett
Working thesis title: Representations of masculinities in Indonesian male lifestyle magazines

Khadijah Mohamad Tuah, PhD Candidate
Supervisors: Lyn Parker and Alison Bartlett (Women Studies)
Working thesis title: Beauty and Sarawakian Malay Women

Thao Nguyen, PhD Candidate
Supervisors: Gary Sigley and Lyn Parker
Working thesis title: An Examination of Consumer Culture in Urban China

Francis Palmos, MA Candidate
Supervisors: David Bourchier and Stephen Dobbs
Working thesis title: The Abdulgani Surabaya papers. Unpublished notes of a Republican in Combat

Mudiyati Rahmatunnisa, PhD Candidate
Supervisor: David Bourchier
Working thesis title: Decentralization and Democratization in Indonesia: Case Studies from West Java

Tracy Wright Webster, PhD Candidate
Supervisor: Lyn Parker
Working thesis title: Female Adolescents Negotiating Sexuality and Gender in Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Hai Guan Yap, PhD Candidate
Supervisors: Stephen Dobbs and Gary Sigley
Working thesis title: Transformation of Buddhism in Singapore